#i just have an interesting type of song likes

[bitethedevil]

raphael is not free, he works kinda for his daddy. How does he spend his free time? when there is no soul or contract? no more cringe diary to write?? no more spying?? no more obsession with his dream? just him with fre time

Raphael’s Free Time

I’ve always had a sense that Raphael both works hard and plays hard. I mean look at his house and how it is. When he’s done with work, don’t even think about speaking to him or bothering him. It’s his chill time. Though I also feel like even his chill time is neatly scheduled and he has trouble with not doing anything at all. Even when he’s lounging in his bath or drinking wine on his balcony, his mind is still running. I also feel like he’s the type of person to have side projects, and his side projects have side projects.

There’s a bit of everything, honestly

He is thousands of years old, so I feel like he has learned a bit of everything. A lot of his off time probably goes to research. He has had hundreds of clients with hundreds of different professions and interests, and Raphael is not going to be caught looking stupid.

He learns a bit of everything to know how to better deal with those specific people. I’m thoroughly convinced that he knows a bit about everything and he’s proficient in just about every skill and hobby under the sun. Hunting, fishing, sewing, knitting, gardening, cooking, embroidering, you name it.

He might not like all those things equally, but he knows stuff about it, and he knows how to do it. I don’t think he’s able to deal with not being good at something or not knowing about something. Learning new things and acquiring new skills doesn’t intimidate him.

What he likes

We know from his diaries and some of the books around the House of Hope that he likes to write. He’s constantly writing contracts anyway, so that is not surprising. He likes writing creatively about his own plans and making fanfiction about himself. He writes poetry and songs, and even incorporates that into his contracts, as seen with Yurgir.

He plays music and sings too. He is a bard, after all. I think a lot of his time is spent on that and it seems like something he enjoys. We all know he likes the sound of his own voice, so it makes good sense.

He paints too. It’s not directly proven in the game, but there are painting supplies and an easel at the HoH. If I remember correctly, he mostly paints landscapes. I think that’s interesting considering all the paintings he has of himself. I don’t think he was the one to make the portraits of him. In some psychoanalytical way I think that’s because he is unable to properly capture how he himself is and is only able to see what he wants himself to be, but he enjoys other people’s depictions of himself (given that they fit the image HE has of himself). What he can depict though, is how he sees the world, thus: landscapes. Might just be me overanalysing again. I’ve written more about his portraits here.

All in all, he’s a very creative dude. It’s not really surprising considering that devils are only worth as much as they produce in a way, so even in his free time, he is still making things and being productive, though in another more recreational way. I think he is like that though: he has to do something or he’ll go insane.

(Thank you for the ask <3)

[spiders-hth-is-an-outlier]

I know lots of people like it, but I'm a dissenter when it comes to the "Under Pressure" number in particular, and All That Josh in general. I think you can see the show trying so, so hard to turn in the kind of Buffy-esque episode where the monster is an Obvious Metaphor for whatever the characters are already going through, and the problem is that Buffy gets away with that when it probably shouldn't because of phenomenal comedic timing and a pervasive touch of the absurd, and not only can most shows not pull that off, most of that show's writers failed to pull it off in subsequent projects. It's not as easy as it looks.

The Magicians really does not have the touch for that type of humor. It can be a very funny show, at times! But the wit is always a little biting -- it's Fogg manically dictating his fucked-up memoirs, it's the chaos of the bank robbery, or the Margolem, or the cursed teddy bear, or Penny flailing to communicate with the living. The show's humor is a bit Alice-in-Wonderland-esque: it's reasonably normal, relatable people suffering through the realization that their current situation is not subject to the laws of reason, and they're just gonna have to roll with the nonsense.

The kind of humor that All That Josh is trying to do requires a core of emotional sincerity -- it's a plot where the silliness of the musical numbers and the random zombie nonsense is supposed to give way at the end to something genuine: it culminates in this notion that 1) our heroes have actually erred in the dismissive way they've treated Josh, and B) the Quest now requires them to demonstrate their capacity to table their own problems and remember a greater unity.

But 1 falls a little flat because they don't really owe Josh all that much, and honestly weren't under any special moral obligation to like put him on the text chain or whatever. And B is actually super awkward because -- these aren't a group of people with a profound sense of unity and a relational identity to maintain. Half of them barely know each other, and half of them barely tolerate each other. There's an interesting web of relationships within the Questers, but the whole notion that they're a singular Team of people who can't move forward without reaffirming their Unity is...fake. It's invented for this episode, so the emotional climax represented by them all pausing to reach across worlds and sing together is completely unearned. It's good as a song, the cast has some very good singers, but it's the payoff to some other plot thread in some other TV show that actually is about The Power of Friendship.

It would've worked as a B+ Buffy episode. It's a mess as an episode of The Magicians.

[kayventa]

what depressing songs do you know?

what are the lyrics to those songs?

i'll name one

I deserved this -Rebzzxy (ft. Selfless Homage)

[a-whole-lot-of-things]

i love dead boy detectives to death, and hope with all my being that we can Somehow pull off getting it back (through netflix or otherwise)

but honestly if we cant? if we get stuck at where we are now forever? i honestly think ill miss the potential s2 soundtrack the most

[patrocles]

sara snow. daughter of a lord, sister of another. a bastard she-wolf. a keeper of the old faith.

[etchif]

Don't know how controversial of a take this is (not very I assume) but I don't really like I Am Me it's painfully generic lyric and sound-wise and it also doesn't really fit into the show that well

[mila-bee]

I’m playing SOCN on 2 devices and romancing Agnia and Ash and you wouldn’t think they have anything in common… but after this update I think I might have a type 👀

[mickeycookies]

I liked this drawing from my zine so much I used it again as a test for MAD and thus she started to become real lol

[cacaocheri]

if i havent made it obvious enough yet i really like friday night funkin

[kowaindar0u]

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presses face into hands

i am watching some older (like 2000s-2010s) kpop performances and. brain just said "what if idol au"

and i'm like Fuck cause... toumyu almost gives a lot of that anyway but . oh my god lol

sengo would thrive i think tbh... he'd be SUCH a dancer i know it in my heart ... i think about idol!sengo a lot actually oh man...

fudou would be a trainee struggling to get his shit together so he can debut ???

sada would either be a trainee with him or in a new group idk (with urashima!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

hachisuka of course known for his visuals more than anything lol (maybe also his group's leader idk)

i can't decide if taikyuu would be in a group or a soloist... i suppose he could do both

of course the gous are the gous

if yuichi was an idol (lord help him lol) he'd have been like... either scouted randomly when he was out somewhere (i guess for his looks? he'd never believe that askdfkfd) (OMG if they saw him among a garden and the agent was like 'shit... flower boy...' LOL) or he'd work for the company in some capacity already and get put in an on-the-spot audition or something idk. what i'm saying is he'd never go out for an audition himself he'd have to be thrown into it.

otherwise he could perhaps be a makeup artist or something? idk. or maybe a fan lol

the genji bros would def be in a group but have their own duo unit too

oh man oh my god HEH.......HA... *dies*

[invisible-brandy]

people need to learn to enjoy things for longer periods of time and not try to make all their past interests cringe just bc they feel that the teenage/kid version of them was cringe about said interest

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Winston in the Billions

(that not only did billions never write a moment like this, & would never have done so, but doesn't think such a moment would exist)

[seaofreverie]

Man.

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: March 27

"Long Time Gone" by The Chicks

[icharchivist]

hey remember when i left those tags on that post?

i still don’t want to talk about what the work of fiction is but i legit just got reminded today that while it’s been like over 15 years that i did want to check this thing, the character that “caught my interest like 7 years ago” actually caught my interest 12 years ago. As in, there was a specific moment in time when i wanted to get into it because i learnt about the character in question.

i’ve been in hysterics for the past ten minutes because i’m realizing it’s been over a decade that once in a while i had humored starting this thing, and that while it definitely started out of another place, it’s been 12 years that steadily it was because this character was standing out to me enough that i wanted to get into it, but then forgot all about it, and now i’m out there actually getting into it after a *dream that came out of nowhere about this chara popping up while i haven’t thought of them in years* and i’m just. 

bestfriendo is making fun of me because “this is the most slowburn in all of history of fav characters” and i’m screaming into my hands, imagine considering getting into something for OVER A DECADE while constantly one character keeps standing out for you and eventually you just get a dream out of nowhere of this chara like a sudden “hey. I’ve been sending you messages about it for the past decade why the fuck are you leaving me on read” and now you’re not only forced to pay attention but also forced to realize YOU COULD HAVE STARTED ALL OF THAT OVER TEN YEARS AGO i’m feeling so unwell.

[youremyonlyhope]

I'm not a "new musical theatre style music" person. Never have been.

Even when I was doing voice lessons, I'd steer towards the golden age or jazzy musical theatre songs. My voice teacher would have to drag me kicking and screaming towards adding anything new musical theatre to my repertoire. For a while, the most modern song in my book was I Know The Truth from Aida, and I wouldn't count that as new musical theatre style since I mean more the Pasek&Paul or Joe Iconis type.

And now I have an audition coming up for a small production of a show in that style and I'm supposed to sing a song in a similar style. And I'm looking at all my sheet music like... let me do some Cole Porter... or Gershwin... at least Sondheim please...